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Wife of 'Ghost Adventures' Star Hires Hitman to Kill Him | Crime Alert 04.23.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean see Grace Breaking Crime News Now
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  Speaker 1: Ghost Adventures. Actor Aaron Goodwin's estranged wife says, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted him dead. Police uncover the murder for hire plot
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  Speaker 1: after Florida Corrections officers confiscate and inmate's phone that inmate
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  Speaker 1: grant a Motto, who's serving life for the murders of
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  Speaker 1: his mother, father, and brother. Victoria reportedly began a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with a Motto after seeing you in the Paramount plus
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  Speaker 2: Investigators found both text and Facebook messages between Goodwin and
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  Speaker 2: a Motto planning the murder of her husband. The couple
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  Speaker 2: hired a third person to commit the murder for just
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  Speaker 2: over eleven grand and gave the assassin Aaron's location in
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  Speaker 2: the make and model of his car. In anticipation of
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  Speaker 2: the murder, Goodwin sent messages to a Motto reading I'm
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  Speaker 2: so anxious Aloel and I can't believe it's happening. Goodwin
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  Speaker 2: then asked her lover if she was a bad person
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  Speaker 2: for choosing to kill her husband rather than divorce him.
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  Speaker 2: A Motto's phone was confiscated the same day as the
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  Speaker 2: intended hit, just after he texted the hit man to
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  Speaker 2: ask if the job had been completed.
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  Speaker 1: Victoria Goodwin pleads guilty to a one felony account conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: to commit murder, now facing two to ten Behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: Two thirty am, Clearwater cops call to the Overtime Sports
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  Speaker 1: bar after Aaron Jablonski thirty four quote gets upset when
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  Speaker 1: the karaoke machine doesn't play his song. Another patron tries
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  Speaker 1: to calm him down, but Jablonsky reportedly whips out a
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  Speaker 1: gun from his waistband. The victim tells cops he equipped
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  Speaker 1: I don't effing care, racked around out of the gun,
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  Speaker 1: then walked away. When cops find him, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: glock nine pistol on him two bats as. Jablonsky has
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  Speaker 1: a previous conviction of battery on law enforcement. Jablonsky free
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  Speaker 1: after posting a forty thousand dollars bond order to stay
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  Speaker 1: away from the bar and the victim. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news after this Now at the latest crimeate justice
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley we began in Texas as the gunman behind
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  Speaker 3: the racist mass shooting at a walmart in El Paso
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  Speaker 3: has pleaded guilty to capital murder. Twenty six year old
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Crusius admitted to killing twenty three people in twenty
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  Speaker 3: nineteen after targeting Hispanics. He drove over seven hundred miles
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  Speaker 3: from suburban Dallas and open fire with an AK style
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  Speaker 3: rifle in one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.
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  Speaker 3: Judge Sam Madrano told him, quote, your mission failed. You
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  Speaker 3: didn't divide this city, you strengthened it. Crusius, already serving
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  Speaker 3: ninety federal life terms, will now receive a state life
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  Speaker 3: sentence with no parole. The death penalty was dropped at
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  Speaker 3: the request of many victims families. Defense attorneys say he
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  Speaker 3: suffers from severe metal illness and was radicalized online. He
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  Speaker 3: has never apologized. The victims included a high school student, retirees,
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  Speaker 3: and Mexican national shopping that day. A Colorado man will
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  Speaker 3: spend the rest of his life behind bars for a
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  Speaker 3: chilling crime that began with deception and.
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  Speaker 4: Ended in tragedy. Crime Online Sydney Sumner has the story.
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  Speaker 2: In Broomfield, Colorado, forty four year old Daniel Krug has
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  Speaker 2: been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the
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  Speaker 2: murder of his wife, Kristel Krug in December twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors revealed that Krug orchestrated a campaign of harassment against
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  Speaker 2: Kristel by impersonating her ex boyfriend, sending threatening messages to
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  Speaker 2: instill fear. His aim was to manipulate her into seeking
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  Speaker 2: his protection. When she began cooperating with police, Krug attacked
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  Speaker 2: her in their home, rendering her unconscious before fatally stabbing her.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the defense's claim of no physical evidence linking him
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  Speaker 2: to the scene, the jury found the circumstantial evidence compelling.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Priscilla Lowe also imposed an additional nine and a
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  Speaker 2: half years for stalking and criminal impersonation, labeling the acts
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  Speaker 2: as domestic violence. Crystal, a biochemical engineer and mother of three,
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  Speaker 2: was remembered by family as fiercely smart, funny, and creative.
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  Speaker 2: Her children, now orphaned, are being cared for by relatives.
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  Speaker 4: District Attorney Brian Mason described Krug's actions as quote an
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  Speaker 4: example of depravity driven by a desire for control.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Chris Leguizano, fifty one drives from Des Moines
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  Speaker 1: to San Antonio to stay with her son, Edgar Chung Leguizano.
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  Speaker 1: From there, she delivers a truck to her ex brother
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  Speaker 1: in law in Mexico. It's a known area for kidnappings,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what family thinks happened to the Iowa mom.
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  Speaker 1: Chris checks in with her family, but doesn't return to
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio. Two days later, her son files a missing
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  Speaker 1: person report. Chris five foot one inch, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five pounds. The FBI has been investigating. She's white,
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  Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes. If you have info on the
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  Speaker 1: disappearance of Chris Leguizano, call five one five seven two
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  Speaker 1: five six zero three six five one five seven two
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  Speaker 1: five six zero three six. For the latest crime injustice news,
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  Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Race.